Brìgh an Òrain = A story in every song : the songs and tales of Lauchie MacLellan / translated and edited by John Shaw ; airs transcribed by Lisa Ornstein from field recordings ; foreword by Alistair MacLeod. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xxvii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M165 B85 2000
Songs: pages [95]-299.
Ornstein, Lisa, 1955-
Shaw, John William.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island Folklore.
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I'm movin' on : the life and legacy of Hank Snow / Vernon Oickle. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2014. 193 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 .S674 O39 2014
Born in tiny Brooklyn, Queen's County, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow (1914-1999) enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. Journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow's hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood on Nova Scotia's South Shore, to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow's career, and his journey ('Everywhere, man,') from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand Ole Opry in Texas. Includes a foreword from Hank's son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.
Snow, Hank
Country musicians — Canada — Biography
Country musicians — United States — Biography
Singers — Canada — Biography
Singers — United States — Biography
Lyricists — Canada — Biography
Lyricists — United States — Biography
Nova Scotia — Biography
Nashville (Tenn.) — Biography
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Larry Gorman : the man who made the songs / Edward D. Ives. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1964. xv, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML410 I9 G671 I95
Includes index.
Composers — Canada — Biography.
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The Cape Breton fiddler / Allister MacGillivray. 1st ed. Sydney : College of Cape Breton Press, 1981. 193 pages : illustrations, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML398 M145
Fiddlers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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The East Coast ceilidh : a look at Atlantic Canada's music scene / by John R. Zinck ; foreword by Joella Foulds. Dominion : Vanmarkin Publications, 1998. 75 pages : ports ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML394 Z77 1997
Musicians — Atlantic Provinces — Biography
Musical groups — Atlantic Provinces.
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Singing towards the future : the story of Portia White / by Lian Goodall ; illustrations by Liz Milkau. Toronto : Napoleon Publishing, 2004. 63 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3930 W587 G646 2004
Contraltos — Canada Biography Juvenile literature.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Catalogue of Canadian composers Rev. and enl. ed. St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1972. 254 pages 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML390 K14
Music — Canada — Bio-bibliography
Composers — Canada — Biography.
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A journey in Celtic music : Cape Breton style / Sheldon MacInnes. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997. 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3563.7 M6 M152
Folk music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Musicians — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography.
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Traditional singers and songs from Ontario Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, 1965. viii, 210 pages illus., ports. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3563 T763 F784
Folk-songs, Canadian — Ontario
Singers, Canadian
Folk-songs, Canadian — Discography.
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American balladry from British broadsides: a guide for students and collectors of traditional song / by G. Malcolm Lawis, Jr.. Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1957. xiii, 315 pages; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3553 A512 L425
American ballads and songs — History and criticism
English ballads and songs — History and criticism
Broadsides — History and criticism.
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The ballad mongers : rise of the modern folk song / Oscar Brand. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1962. 240 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3551 B188 B817
Folk-songs, American — History and criticism.
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Form in primitive music : an analytical and comparative study of the melodic form of some ancient southern California Indian songs / by Helen H. Roberts. New York : American library of musicology : W. W. Norton, 1933. x, 180 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3547 R631 F723
The songs ... are derived from three sources: Luiseño, Gabrielino presumably mainland although not clearly so and a small number plainly stated to belong to Catalina.--Introd., pages 2. Includes music.
First Nations of North America — Music
Luiseño Indians
Gabrielino Indians
First Nations of North America — California — Santa Catalina island
Shoshonean Indians — Religion and mythology
Musical form
Musical instruments, Primitive.
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Newsletter 198--.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML28 H173 H255
Folk music, Canadian — Periodicals
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NSCF news / Nova Scotia Choral Federation. Armdale : The Federation, 1976-1981. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Published: Halifax, N.S., Sept. 1976- .
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Chorus : Nova Scotia Choral Federation newsletter Halifax : The Federation, 1981-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML25 N935
Nova Scotia Choral Federation.
Choirs (Music) — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Roll back the years : history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy : genesis to 1930 / by Edward B. Moogk. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1975. xii, 443 pages : illustrations, facsims., ports. ; 29 cm. &
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML205 M817
Issued also in French. Includes index.
Sound — Recording and reproducing — History
Sound recordings
Phonograph
Music — Canada — Discography.
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National Library of Canada. Music Division
Catalogue of the archival fonds and collections of the Music Division / by Stéphane Jean and Jeannine Barriault. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1994. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML136 O89 N27 1994
Catalogue no. SN3-290/1994--T.pages verso.
Jean, Stéphane, 1964-
Barriault, Jeannine, 1947-
Music — Canada — Archival resources
Musicians — Canada — Archives — Catalogs.
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Encyclopedia of music in Canada / edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1981. xxix, 1076 pages : illustrations, facisms., ports. ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S ML106 C212
...published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council under their block grant programs; and a grant from the Publications Fund of the University of Toronto Press.--T.pages verso.
Kallmann, Helmut, 1922-
Potvin, Gilles, 1923-
Winters, Kenneth, 1929-
Music — Canada — Dictionaries.
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MacLean Collection : music collected by Joseph W. MacLean, Washabuck Iona : Highland Village, 1 v. (various pagings) : port. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 M34
Highland Village archival finding aid.— Cover. The MacLean Collection contains music collected by the late Joseph W. MacLean of Washabuck, Nova Scotia. Joe MacLean was an accomplished fiddler who gathered one of the most significant collections of traditional Scottish fiddle music in the world.
Fiddle tunes — Catalogs
Iona (N.S.)
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Jerry Holland's collection of fiddle tunes 282 tunes from the repertoire of Jerry Holland / edited by Paul Stewart Cranford. Rev. & expanded ed. Little River : Cranford Publications, 1992. 84 pages : ports. ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 H734 1992
For unacc. violin. Cover title. A compilation of traditional and original melodies--Cover.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fiddle tunes — Scotland
Fiddle tunes — Ireland
Folk dance music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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The lighthouse collection of newly composed fiddle tunes / all tunes by Paul Stewart Cranford. Englishtown : Cranford Publications, 1996. vii, 101 pages + 1 compact disc.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M41 C891 L72 1996
CD transferred to SMI Division.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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American folksongs for piano / Norman Cazden. Stamford, Conn. : Jack Spratt Music 1962. [2], 64 pages: music; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M38.5 A512 C386
Piano music, Juvenile
Folk-songs, American.
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Songs I to English texts / editor, Frederick A. Hall = Chansons I sur des textes anglais / directeur de l'ouvrage, Frederick A. Hall. Ottawa : Canadian Musical Heritage Society = Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien, 1985. xxx pages, 235 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M23 C3 C33 1983
Hall, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1944-
Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien.
Songs, English — Canada — 19th century
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Traditional Celtic violin music of Cape Breton containing strathspeys, reels, jigs, etc. transcribed from the playing of some outstanding exponents of the old style of Highland Scottish fiddling as cultivated in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia : complete with hi / by Kate Dunlay and David Greenburg. Toronto : DunGreen Music, 1996. 158 pages of music : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 T73 1996
Includes index.
Fiddle tunes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fiddle tunes — Scotland
Folk dance music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk dance music — Scotland.
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Songs & stories from Deep Cove, Cape Breton / as remembered by Amby Thomas ; edited by Ron MacEachern ; illustrated by Ellison Robertson. Sydney : College of Cape Breton Press, 1979. 49 pages : illustrations, port. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1678 T454
The songs; words and unacc. melodies.
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folk songs — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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